How To Password Protect A Folder In Windows 10?

Looking for an easy way to password protect your folders in Windows 10? Well, you are in the right page. In this tutorial, I am going to provide some simple steps that will help you to password protect your folders. Using this method, you can protect any folders in your Windows 10 computer.

Obviously, we all have some personal data and want to hide it from the public view. Windows by default will let you protect your files and folders with some hidden attributes. But anyone with some decent tech skills can unhide those files and folders.

For this reason, I suggest you to protect your folders by following the tutorial given here. Let us discuss in detail.

Steps To Password Protect A Folder In Windows 10:

Step 1: To get started, open the folder that you wish to protect and right-click on an empty space.

Step 2: Now select New -> Text Document from the context menu.

Step 3: This will create a new blank text document. Open the text document and add the code given below.